Display-clip.



E. B. BECKER.

DISPLAY CLIP.

APPLICATION FILED MAY]. 1918 Patented Mar. 4,1919.

maasag "EDGAR-1B. BICKER, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

DISPLAY-CLIP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 4, 1919.

Application filed May 7, 1918. Serial No. 233,038.

To all whom it may-concern Be it known that I, EDGAR B. BIGKER, acitizen of the United States, and resident of St. Louis, Missouri, haveinventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Display- Clips, of whichthe following is a specification containing a full, clear, and exactdescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, formingapart hereof.

My invention relates to improvements in display clips, and the object ofmy improvements is to provide a clip of inexpensive and durableconstruction, which may be easily and quickly secured upon a support,such as a display card, or a tack or nail, and in which clip an articlemay be held firmly and securely and without danger of marring ordefacing the article.

My improvements consist in the novel construction, arrangement andcombination of parts as will be fully, clearly and concisely set forth,definitely pointed out in my claims and illustrated by the accompanyingdrawing, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of a display card havingslots in which is secured a pair of the devices of my invention asarranged for the support of a tobacco pipe, shown by dotted lines.

Fig. 2 is a plan, or edge view, of the card and clips, as shown in Fig.1.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged plan view of a clip embodying my improvements.

Fig. 4 is an edge or side view of the clip.

Fig. 5 is a front elevation of the clip.

Fig. 6 is a rear elevation of the clip.

Referring by numerals to the drawing, 7 and 8 designate the terminals ofthe piece of material out of which the clip is formed.

which is preferably wire, of circular section, for the reason that it isvery readily and economically shaped or fashioned and least likely tomar or deface the article to be held by the clip or the supporttherefor,

The terminals, just recited, comprise the free ends of a pair ofrelatively spaced arms 9 and 10, which are united at their ends,opposite the terminals 7 and 8, by being twisted upon each other to forma relatively rigid and stiif stem 11, and which uniting causes the arms9 and 10 to produce a loop, open at the terminals 7 and 8, and bypreference, in order to facilitate the placement or removal of articlesbetween and from the arms or loop the arms next the terminals arecrimped as at 12 to provide a flaring mouth 13.

By reference to Fig. 2 it will be observed I i that the arms may be ofdiiferent formations in order to be best adapted to the securement ofdifferently shaped parts of the same article, such as the bowl and stemof'a tobacco pipe, or for single articles of diflerent shapes, and it isfor such reason that I do not wish to be, in anywise, understood aslimiting myself to the shaping of the arms.

From the inner or base end of the twisted stem the two strands are bentat approximately right angles and relatively divergent as at 14-1 1, asbest shown in Fig. 3 and then bent to form the base 15, which is in theform of a circular coil, comprising spaced helices 16-16, between whichthe clip, as a whole, is secured over the margin of a card or similarsupport.

As best-shown in Fig. 4: each helix of the base, at points substantiallydiametrically opposite thestem is bent from the plane of its body andrelatively away from each other to form a flaring mouth 17 whichfacilitates the placement of the clip over the margin of the displaycard or like support.

In order to adapt the device for ready securement upon a support, otherthan the margin of a display card, as recited, I form in each helix ofthe base an eye 18, whose bight or body, occupies the plane of the helixout of which it is formed and whose legs 1919 extend substantiallyradially from the bight to the body of the helix and which legs comprisethe bends forming the flaring mouth 17.

As shown best in Fig. 3 one leg of each of the eyes 18 is substantiallystraight and removed from the median line of the base, while the otherleg is curved and extended, near its outer end, to said median line, andit is the two curved legs which adapts the clip to be readily supportedover a tack or nail, for it apparent that the curved legs may be sprungover the shank of the tack and when sprung thereover serve as suspensionpoints capable of sustaining a reasonable load yet easily removablemanually.

I have shown the clip as being secured Over a margin formed by slottinga display card but obviously the device may as readily be secured overthe contour margin of the card.

By constructing a display clip as my invention contemplates with aspring base for attachment over a support, and a pair of spring arms forholding an article there is assured a permanency to the placement of thearticle both as to its connection with the clip aswell as to theconnection of the clip with the (display card or tack) supportingelement.

I claim 7 1. As a new article of manufacture, a clip constructed of asingle piece of wire comprising a helical base having relatively spacedconvolutions, a stem formed by twisting the wire and a pair of armshaving free ends opposite-the stem,-portions of said convolutions beingsprung to facilitate their placement over a supporting'element.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a display clip, formed from a singlepiece 01": elastic wire and comprising a pair of arms whose free endsare the terminals of the'piece of wire and which arms are relativelybent to form a flaring mouth to facilitate the placement of an articlebetween the arms, a stem formed by twisting the wire, opposite the freeends of the arms and a base formed by coiling to produce relativelyspaced helices arranged to be sprung over and frictionally held to asupport.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a clip comprising a coil having apair of helices,

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Gommissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0."

